Almost 50 organizations funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development “remain involved in activities directly opposed to Catholic moral and social teachings,” according to a June 1 statement...

Pope Benedict has made ecumenical work a top priority, advancing talks with the Orthodox churches and extending an invitation to Anglicans. But his efforts to reconcile with traditionalist Catholics...

The Elliot Institute, an Illinois organization dedicated to helping women recover from the aftermath of abortions, suggests that "probably the majority of abortions in the United States are unwanted...

Released Thursday, Jun. 3

The president of Germany’s episcopal conference is under investigation for a 1987 decision to transfer a priest who had committed abuse to another parish. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg was...

In a lengthy address delivered in Washington on June 2, Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, discussed various...

Editor's note: The story below is a corrected version of a story that first appeared on June 4. After the original story appeared, CWN learned that the Danish newspaper story on which our report was...

A cover story in Time magazine renews the effort to saddle Pope Benedict XVI with the blame for the worldwide sex-abuse scandal. The Time essay itself covers no new ground and has no real merit, but...

North Carolina public schools are preparing for the fall implementation of the Healthy Youth Act, which mandates that seventh and eighth graders be instructed in “the effectiveness and safety of all...

The October 2010 meeting of the Synod of Bishops will be "an opportunity for Christians of the rest of the world to offer spiritual support and solidarity to their brothers and sisters in the Middle...

A European bishops' group is cautioning against a directive that would call for protection of animals used in laboratory tests in the European Union, but might encourage the use of tissues harvested...

In a noteworthy column published in USA Today, Philip Jenkins, the respected author of Pedophiles and Priests, points out that while sexual abuse by Catholic priests has become the topic of constant...

Pope Benedict XVI devoted his weekly public audience on June 9 to a recap of his trip the previous weekend to Cyprus, adding a look forward to the October meeting of the Synod of Bishops, which will...

England's Prince Charles, speaking to an audience at Oxford, has recommended a return to the "spiritual principles" of the world's great religions, as a means of curbing environmental damage. Prince...

Marquette University has reached a financial settlement with a lesbian professor who had accepted an offer to serve as dean at Marquette, then seen the offer rescinded amid controversy over her open...

Cardinal George Pell’s predicted nomination to the Congregation for Bishops was scuttled because of fears of negative publicity surrounding an abuse allegation made against him in 2002, according to...

Released Wednesday, Jun. 16

Retired Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg, whose resignation was accepted on May 8 amid allegations of child abuse and financial improprieties, has told a German newspaper that he may ask Pope Benedict...

Caritas Internationalis, the consortium of Catholic charitable and relief agencies, is warning that 10 million in the Sahel region of Africa-- 8 million of them in Niger-- are at risk of hunger. “We...

Father James O’Connell, vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a member of the archdiocesan review board for sexual abuse cases, issued an open letter on June 17 in which he blasted the...

A Michigan bishop has temporarily suspended funding of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. “After consulting with a number of advisors, Bishop [Bernard] Hebda has decided that for this year...

Father David Anthony O’Hearn of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has been charged with 17 counts of abuse committed against five boys. In the brief of evidence submitted on Father O’Hearn’s behalf,...

Comparing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the Bhopal and Chernobyl incidents of the 1980s, Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, said that “what is striking in this...

Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City issued a statement of regret after the June 18 execution of Ronnie Lee Garner, a convicted murderer. The bishop voiced the hope that society can “move beyond the...

Released Wednesday, Jun. 23

A German bishop who resigned in the face of abuse charges, then threatened to rescind his resignation, has announced that he will adhere to his decision to resign, and apologized for his misconduct....

Teresa Kettelkamp, who has served as the executive director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Office of Child and Youth Protection since 2005, has called upon the dioceses...

Bishop Joseph Han Yingjin was ordained on June 24 to head the Diocese of Shaanxi, China. He was the 4th bishop ordained this year with the approval of both the Vatican and the Beijing government. In...

In a challenging talk on the crisis of the Catholic liturgy, Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput cites Romano Guardini, who questioned whether modern man can properly relate to liturgical prayer. The...

Pope Benedict XVI returned to the theme of the priesthood in his regular weekly audience on June 30, speaking about St. Joseph Cafasso, a 19th-century Italian priest. The Pope cited him as the model...